faster way to earn few k with the week is play stocks?

Hmmmm how risky were you trading for that?

If you gamble you have to take money off the table.

Did you have any real edge or trading technically (i.e no edge.) ?

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Posts like this actually hinder people.

I learned from ken roberts' options commodity trading courses some decades...(oops, I mean years ago..lol)

I just wanted to chime in here, and caution anyone reading some of these posts that, in my opinion, give a false or dangerous impression. I have been a full-time trader for some time now, and it is not nearly as easy or lucrative as this post seems to make it out to be.

The problem being an individual trader is that the market is inherently disadvantageous to them. Consider US equities. At any one time, institutional investors own ~75% of the market, and of the remaining 25%, roughly 20% of that is owned by the top 10% of households by income. This means that most people, in the remaining ~5%, for any trade, are trading AGAINST the most financially-sophisticated people in the business.

Trading for profit on a CONSISTENT basis is also not nearly as profitable as some claim. If you can consistently achieve a return of ~20%/yr, which is what I aim for, then you are doing very well. Even the best institutional investors don't achieve this. Looking at the performance of ~2000 mutual funds over the past 30 years shows you that, after costs, only 0.6% outperformed the market, and 24% underperformed.

While there are massive success stories (day traders during the dot com era, people who shorted the market during crashes, etc.), this is certainly not the norm. And while it IS possible to profit from the market, as I have, I leave you as a caution with two reasons why I am quitting trading to start a business, which I didn't anticipate when I first got into this:

(1) Trading, as an individual, is an incredibly lonely business. You will spend all day by yourself, looking at charts, etc. with really no interaction with others. You WILL become disconnected with the world, in a sense. Of course, you can find some people online to talk with, but most often this will just be some high school kid somewhere who knows nothing.

(2) Trading can be completely unrewarding. Yes, you can make money, with a lot of work. However, think about what you are doing. You are basically acting as a parasite, siphoning money out of someone else's pocket (typically that other 5% I mentioned), every day. At least for me, I can't go on for another 10 or 20 years, or however long, and look back and realize that I actually didn't contributing anything to society.

Have you ever heard the phrase that "money can't buy happiness"? I never really put much thought into it before, but in the last few years, I have come to realize that there can be a lot of truth in it.

The stock markets are now owned by the algos.

When was the last time you had 1238 winning days with just one loosing day.

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Be warned you'll almost certainly loose money as an inexperienced trader.